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		<title>Festival Ixtapa Zihuatanejo 2012</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2012/01/28/festival-ixtapa-zihuatanejo-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNLIMITED FUN FESTIVAL IXTAPA-ZIHUATANEJO &#8211; Art, Culture and Tradition Calendar of events for Festival Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo 2012 (click to enlarge)  The Oficina de Convenciones y Visitantes de Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo (OCVIZ) announced a change of name from their annual cultural events program from &#8220;Unlimited Fun&#8221; to &#8220;Festival Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Art, Culture and Tradition&#8221;. It&#8217;s a mouthful, I know, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Beatriz Visits Zihuatanejo</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2011/06/21/hurricane-beatriz-visits-zihuatanejo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it was around Thursday or so that the weather map first hinted that a tropical storm was forming in the Bahía de Tehuántepec off the coast of Oaxaca, and news reports showed that they were getting some rain. By Saturday things had shaped up and it became apparent our first real rain of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami in Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa 2</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2011/03/11/tsunami-in-zihuatanejo-ixtapa-2/</link>
		<comments>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2011/03/11/tsunami-in-zihuatanejo-ixtapa-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a morning walk with my wife and one of the other regular morning walkers asks me if I knew if we were going to have a tsunami. Tsu what? Whatsup? First I heard about any possible tsunami. Why am I always the last one to know these things? Why did I not get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami in Zihuatanejo</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2010/03/03/tsunami-in-zihuatanejo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world awoke to the tragic news of an 8.8 earthquake in Chile on the morning of Saturday, February 27, 2010, here in Zihuatanejo we also awoke to a tsunami warning. It turned out that the best local source of information regarding the pending tsunami was my Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board where folks were finding and posting data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing the Waters of Zihuatanejo</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/12/20/testing-the-waters-of-zihuatanejo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playa La Ropa Things appear to be improving and the responsible authorities seem to be taking their jobs a bit more seriously regarding the testing of the ocean water at our beaches for bacteriological content. The Secretario del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT) announced that it is stepping up its monitoring program of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good-bye SECTUR!</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/09/12/good-bye-sectur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proposed disappearance of the Secretaría de Turismo (SECTUR) announced by Presidente Calderón this week has drawn criticism from several locals in the tourism sector, but personally I&#8217;ve always thought SECTUR to be a waste of public resources. It&#8217;s time for us to stop allowing others to do the work we should be doing. The paternalistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Zihuatanejo through the Eyes of Gene &#8220;Cri Cri&#8221; Lysaker</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/07/27/seeing-zihuatanejo-through-the-eyes-of-gene-cri-cri-lysaker/</link>
		<comments>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/07/27/seeing-zihuatanejo-through-the-eyes-of-gene-cri-cri-lysaker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A magical rainbow arched over the Bay of Zihuatanejo as the exhibition of images by Gene &#8220;Cri Cri&#8221; Lysaker got underway around 7 p.m. at the Museo Arqueológico de la Costa Grande last Friday evening. The exhibition consisted mostly of photographs as well as watercolor scenes and 8mm movies. Hundreds of images were displayed on easels set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Storm Andres Aftermath</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/06/23/tropical-storm-andres-aftermath/</link>
		<comments>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/06/23/tropical-storm-andres-aftermath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The waves in Zihuatanejo&#8217;s bay washed almost all the way into the streets of downtown Zihuatanejo last night. We could hear them thundering all night long as Tropical Storm Andres churned past Zihuatanejo just a few miles off our coast. In some places they actually reached the top of the walkway and started to spill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Years Ago Today&#8230; or Last Sunday</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/05/07/20-years-ago-today-or-last-sunday/</link>
		<comments>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/05/07/20-years-ago-today-or-last-sunday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 7, 1989 &#8211; from left: unknown girl with Jean Claude, Nelli, Doro, Noyo, Lupita, Lalo, and me at the muelle on day 3 of the Torneo de Pez Vela (click to enlarge) I walked from my home at Playa La Ropa into downtown Zihuatanejo, a man on a mission. It was Sunday, May 7th, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weathering the Flu Psychosis in Zihuatanejo</title>
		<link>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/05/01/weathering-the-flu-psychosis-in-zihuatanejo/</link>
		<comments>http://zihuatanejo.net/blog/2009/05/01/weathering-the-flu-psychosis-in-zihuatanejo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 16:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ZihuaRob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the recent outbreak of  this new flu, known first in Mexico as gripe (or gripa) porcina (swine flu) before being renamed influenza A H1N1, became the focus of every news media in the world, a psychosis has begun to develop around the world that has unfortunately also affected us here in Zihuatanejo where we [...]]]></description>
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